2 February 1923 | A Polish woman, Genowefa Kowalczyk, was born in Skomielna Czarna. In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943. No. 32203 Evacuated to KL Bergen-Belsen and liberated there. - ThreadSky

auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social • 28 days ago

2 February 1923 | A Polish woman, Genowefa Kowalczyk, was born in Skomielna Czarna.

In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943.
No. 32203
Evacuated to KL Bergen-Belsen and liberated there.

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rskye.bsky.social•28 days ago

💜

douglasq.bsky.social•28 days ago

Good Lord. I'd love to know her story.

dcarpenter70.bsky.social•28 days ago

🙏🏻💔

rudigeerts.bsky.social•28 days ago

1/n After Bergen-Belsen became overcrowded, the SS moved sick female prisoners into a so-called tent camp (Zeltlager). The tent camp was erected in August 1944 in a portion of the "prisoners' camp" section, and initially served as a transit camp for non-Jewish women from Poland,

rudigeerts.bsky.social•28 days ago

2/n whom the Germans had deported to the Reich to work in armaments factories. By the beginning of November 1944, the tent camp held around 8,000 women, whom the SS had evacuated from Auschwitz-Birkenau; most of them were Jewish.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•28 days ago

3/n After a storm destroyed the "tent camp" that month, camp officials established the so-called small women's camp (Kleines Frauenlager) and transferred the surviving prisoners of the tent camp to the small women's camp.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•28 days ago

4/4 Conditions in this camp deteriorated further as new prisoners arrived. Among these women were Anne Frank and her sister Margot, both of whom died in Bergen-Belsen in February or March 1945.

joecocker.bsky.social•28 days ago

For Genowefa

asneakypete.bsky.social•28 days ago

She survived; may she have lived a loved and loving life.

briatt.bsky.social•28 days ago

Seems to be a popular name; I saw one for a lady born same year who died young in the mid to late 1950s, another much longer lived but appeared to be an April birth date.